Oxygen shortage in Amazon city forces mass patient transfer
(World News Brazil)

SAO PAULO (AP) — Scores of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city will be transferred out of state as the local health system collapses and dwindling stocks of oxygen tanks mean Brazilians have started to die breathless at home. Doctors in Manaus, a city of 2 million people, are choosing which patients to treat and at least one of the city`s cemeteries asks mourners to line up to enter and bury their dead. The strains prompted Amazonas state’s government to say it will dispatch 235 patients who depend on oxygen, but aren’t in intensive-care units, to five other states and the capital, Brasilia. “I want to thank those governors who are giving us their hand...